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Review of Financial Studies, doi:10.1093/rfs/hhl024
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Price Informativeness and Investment Sensitivity to Stock Price

Qi Chen 1 *, Itay Goldstein 2, and Wei Jiang 3
1 Fuqua School of Business, Duke University, Durham, NC 27708-0120
2 Wharton School, University of Pennsylvania, 2300 Steinberg Hall - Dietrich Hall, 3620 Locust Walk, Philadelphia, PA 19104
3 Columbia Business School, 3022 Broadway, New York, NY 10027

* To whom correspondence should be addressed.
Qi Chen, E-mail: qc2{at}duke.edu


  Abstract

The paper shows that two measures of the amount of private information in stock price -- price nonsynchronicity and PIN -- have a strong positive effect on the sensitivity of corporate investment to stock price. Moreover, the effect is robust to the inclusion of controls for managerial information, and for other information-related variables. The results suggest that firm managers learn from the private information in stock price about their own firms’ fundamentals and incorporate this information in the corporate investment decisions. We relate our findings to an alternative explanation for the investment-to-price sensitivity, namely that it is generated by capital constraints, and show that both the learning channel and the alternative channel contribute to this sensitivity.

Keywords: investment, learning, price informativeness.
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